CVE-2018-11796: Apache Tika Denial of Service via XML Entity Expansion Vulnerability
Severity: Medium Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.19 Description: In Apache Tika 1.19 (CVE-2018-11761), we added an entity expansion limit for XML parsing. However, Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls reset() after each parse, which, for Xerces2 parsers, as per the documentation, removes the user-specified SecurityManager and thus removes entity expansion limits after the first parse. Apache Tika 1.19 is therefore still vulnerable to entity expansions which can lead to a denial of service attack. Mitigation: Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.19.1 or later Credit: This issue was discovered by Slava Gorelik of CloudAlly.